Session distribution
Session 1. Binary codes
Session duration: 2 hours
Main goal:
Development of the mathematical capabilities to understand and change the number base in digital electronic "language"
Development:
- Number base: decimal vs. binary
- Binary codes: classic binary codes: pure binary and BCD
- Other binary codes
Software and documentation support:
- Session 1 dossier
- WebLab-Deusto.
Session 2. Boolean Algebra: principles, logic gates and theorems
Session duration: 4 to 5 hours
Main objective:
Knowledge of Boolean Algebra to work with and develop logic/mathematical equations applied to digital electronic circuits.
Development:
- Knowledge of Boolean Algebra
- Boolean mathematics: Truth tables and equations
- Theorems and postulates
- Theorem and postulate application
- Boolean gates: circuits and equations
Software and documentation support:
- Session 2 dossier
- Boole-Deusto
- WebLab-Deusto.
Session 3. Boolean minimization
Session duration: 2 hours
Main objective:
Knowledge of the tools that allow us to minimize the Boolean functions.
Development:
- Boolean minimization
- Veitch-Karnaugh map
Documentation and software support:
- Session 3 support
- Boole-Deusto
Session 4. Bit-level combinational system design (logic gates)
Session duration: 3 or 4 hours
Main objective:
Clarify the doubts regarding everything explained so far and student work with Boole-Deusto
Development:
- General exercises of everything that has been learnt
Documentation and software support:
- Session 6 dossier
- Boole-Deusto
- WebLab-Deusto.
Session 5: Course final project
Session duration: 2 or 3 hours
Main objective:
- Development of the end of course project
Development:
Given a selected exercise, the student will have to solve it and obtain both the exercise results and the construction of the circuit, in a theoretic manner, using Weblab-Deusto.
Documentation and software support:
- Boole-Deusto
- WebLab-Deusto.